X-ray thoracic spine 2 views at Chandler Regional Medical Center
1955 W Frye Rd, Chandler, AZ · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1700910189
$231.29
Cash price Discounted cash price What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge. Example: A CT scan has a $3,200 gross charge but an $850 discounted cash price. Ask for it by name when scheduling — hospitals don't always advertise it up front.
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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$863.00
Gross charge Gross charge (chargemaster price) The hospital's full, undiscounted list price — pulled from its internal "chargemaster" price list. Almost no one actually pays this. Example: A chest X-ray has a gross charge of $1,450. The same hospital's discounted cash price for the same X-ray is $180 — the gross charge mostly anchors negotiations, not what patients pay.
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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$31.31 with Care 1st vs $724.92 with MultiPlan — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →Payer ?Payer The insurance company footing the bill — Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Medicare, and so on. Example: "Blue Cross Blue Shield" is the payer. Its negotiated rate for an MRI might be $904, while a different payer's negotiated rate for the same scan is $1,509. Full explanation → |
Plan ?Plan The specific product an insurer sells — e.g. "Blue Cross PPO 500" — which sets your deductible, coinsurance and negotiated rates. Example: Two people both insured by Aetna can owe very different amounts for the same MRI: $50 with an HMO plan's flat copay, or the full $1,200 toward a high-deductible PPO plan's unmet deductible. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| Care 1st | Medicare|All Plans | $31.31 | ↓ -86% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $31.31 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $31.31 | ↓ -86% |
| First Health | Medicare|All Plans | $31.31 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | Medicare|All Plans | $31.31 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS - AZ | Medicare|All Plans | $31.31 | ↓ -86% |
| Health Choice | Medicare|All Plans | $31.31 | ↓ -86% |
| Mercy Care Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $31.31 | ↓ -86% |
| Mercy Care Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $31.31 | ↓ -86% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $32.10 | ↓ -86% |
| Health Choice | Medicaid|All Plans | $34.69 | ↓ -85% |
| United | Medicaid|All Plans | $34.69 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS - AZ | Commercial|MaricopaFocus | $69.51 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS - AZ | Commercial|Neighborhood | $69.51 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS - AZ | Commercial|All Other Plans | $92.67 | ↓ -60% |
| United | Commercial|DignityHealthEmployee | $120.82 | ↓ -48% |
| BCBS - AZ | Commercial|Workers Comp | $137.63 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $230.35 | ↓ -0% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $230.35 | ↓ -0% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $230.35 | ↓ -0% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Exchange | $233.09 | ↑ +1% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $235.69 | ↑ +2% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $235.69 | ↑ +2% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $235.69 | ↑ +2% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus SureFit | $249.50 | ↑ +8% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $328.29 | ↑ +42% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $466.02 | ↑ +101% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $724.92 | ↑ +213% |
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X-ray thoracic spine 2 views at other Arizona hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Ocotillo Medical Center | Chandler | $101.06 | $79.00 – $244.50 |
| Mercy Gilbert Medical Center | Gilbert | $212.30 | $34.69 – $664.51 |
| Banner University Medical Center Phoenix | Phoenix | $91.93 | $36.40 – $244.50 |
| Banner University Medical Center Tucson | Tucson | $109.20 | $45.09 – $291.20 |
| Banner University Medical Center South | Tucson | $112.11 | $45.09 – $291.20 |
| Banner Baywood Medical Center | Mesa | $93.89 | $79.00 – $244.50 |
| Banner Boswell Medical Center | Sun City | $79.54 | $71.43 – $260.80 |
| Banner Del Webb Medical Center | Sun City West | $75.96 | $36.40 – $260.80 |